2006 Agenda

2006 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Agenda

Monday, June 19 – Thursday, June 22
Washington Court Hotel, Washington, DC

Monday, June 19
5:00 - 6:00 pm	New Fellows Registration & Photo Session – Ashlawn
5:30 - 6:30 pm	Registration – Base of Stairs, Lower Lobby
6:30 pm	New Attendees Dinner – Atrium Ballroom
Tuesday, June 20
7:45 - 8:30 am	Registration – Lower Lobby
8:00 - 8:45 am	Breakfast Buffet – Atrium Ballroom
9:00 - 9:15 am	Welcome – Grand Ballroom James Corones, President, Krell Institute
9:15 - 10:15 am	Keynote – Grand Ballroom John Bell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory “The Impact of Computing on Combustion Science”
10:15 - 10:30 am	Break
Session I — Grand Ballroom Moderator: Walter Polansky, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
10:30 - 10:50 am	Bree Aldridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Interpretable Modeling of Complex Cell Signaling Networks”
10:50 - 11:10 am	Joshua Waterfall, Cornell University “Origins of Sloppiness in Biological Models”
11:10 - 11:20 am	Break
11:20 - 11:40 am	Alex Lindblad, University of Washington “Fast Update Procedures for Finite Element Based Suturing, Tissue Cutting and Skin Undermining in a Haptic Environment”
11:40 am- Noon	Teresa Bailey, Texas A&M University “A PieceWise Linear Finite Element Discretization of the Diffusion Equation”
Noon - 1:30 pm	Luncheon – Atrium Ballroom Introduction and acknowledgement of DOE CSGF Essay Contest award winners and reviewers
1:30 - 1:45 pm	2006 Frederick Howes Scholar Award Announcement and Presentation - Grand Ballroom David Brown, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1:45 - 2:30 pm	2006 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk Kevin Chu, Princeton University “Towards an Understanding of Nonlinear Electrochemical Transport”
2:30 - 3:15 pm	2007 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk Matthew Wolinsky, University of Minnesota “Modeling Earth Surface Dynamics from Source to Sink”
3:15 - 3:30 pm	Break
Session II — Grand Ballroom Moderator: Thuc Hoang, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
3:30 - 3:50 pm	Christopher Rinderspacher, University of Georgia “Generalized Geminal Functional Theory ”
3:50 - 4:10 pm	Nawaf Bou-Rabee, – California Institute of Technology “Fast, Variational Newmark Integrators on Manifolds”
4:10 - 4:30 pm	Gregory Davidson, University of Michigan “Finite Element Particle Transport Using Wachspress Rational Basis Functions”
6:00 - 8:00 pm	Gala Reception – Atrium Ballroom
Wednesday, June 21
8:00 - 9:00 am	Continental Breakfast – Grand Ballroom Foyer
Session III — Grand Ballroom Moderator: George Seweryniak, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
9:00 - 9:20 am	Jaydeep Bardhan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Efficient Numerical Algorithms for Surface Formulations of Mathematical Models for Biomolecule Analysis and Design”
9:20 - 9:40 am	Mary Dunlop, California Institute of Technology “System Identification for Genetic Regulatory Networks”
9:40 - 10:00 am	Gregory Novak, University of California, Santa Cruz “Kinematics and Structure of Simulated Galaxy Merger Remnants”
10:00 - 10:20 am	Break
10:20 - 10:40 am	Mary Biddy, University of Wisconsin - Madison “Molecular Modeling and Engineering of Vegetable Oil-based Lubricants”
10:40 - 11:00 am	Michael Barad, University of California, Davis “An Embedded Boundary Adaptive Mesh Refinement Method for Environmental Flows”
11:00 - 11:20 am	Kristine Cochran, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Modeling Fatigue”
11:00 - 11:30 am	Break
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Alumni/CSGF Fellows Session Moderated by CSGF Alum Mayya Tokman, University of California, Merced
12:30 pm	Free Time (Lunch on your own)
4:00 pm	Fellows set up for Poster Session – Grand Ballroom
5:00 - 6:00 pm	DOE CSGF Practicum Poster Session/Reception – Grand Ballroom
6:00 - 8:00 pm	DOE CSGF Fellows’ Poster Session/Reception – Grand Ballroom
Thursday, June 22
8:15 am	Fellows meet in hotel lobby
8:30 am	Walk to Rayburn House Office Building
9:00 - 10:00 am	Congressional Breakfast – B339 Rayburn House Office Building
Session IV — Grand Ballroom Moderator: Njema Frazier, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
10:40 - 11:00 am	Michael Driscoll, Boston University “Construction of a genome-wide regulatory network for the metal-reducing microbe Shewanella oneidensis* MR-1”*
11:00 - 11:20 am	Amoolya Singh, University of California, Berkeley “Evolution, Modularity, and Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Networks”
11:20 - 11:40 am	Kristen Grauman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Efficient Matching for Recognition and Retrieval”
11:40 am - 1:00 pm	Luncheon Speaker: Joel Parriott Office of Management and Budget “How and Why You Get Paid to Go to Grad School and Other Budget Lessons”
Session V — Grand Ballroom Moderator: Walter Polansky, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
1:00 - 1:20 pm	Owen Hehmeyer, Princeton University “Molecular Modeling of Tethered Polyelectrolytes”
1:20 - 1:40 pm	Benjamin Lewis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Prediction of MicroRNA Regulatory Targets in Mammalian Genomes”
1:40 - 2:00 pm	Yan Karklin, Carnegie Mellon University “Statistical Models of the Early Visual System”
2:00 - 2:20 pm	Break
2:20 - 2:40 pm	Michael Wu, University of California, Berkeley “Computational methods for characterizing single neuron function under natural conditions”
2:40 - 3:00 pm	Obioma Uche, Princeton University “Collective Coordinate Control of Density Distributions”
3:00 - 3:10 pm	Break
3:15 - 4:15 pm	Writing about Science Jacob Berkowitz, Quantum Writing “Starting from the End: The Power of Turning Science into Story”
5:00 pm	Fellows’ Social – Capitol City

2006 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Agenda

Monday, June 19 – Thursday, June 22 Washington Court Hotel, Washington, DC

Monday, June 19 – Thursday, June 22
Washington Court Hotel, Washington, DC